Research Center Will Help Protect The Great Smoky Mountains National Park

The National Park Service has started construction on the Twin Creeks Science and Education Center at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in southeast Tennessee. Atlanta-based Hedges Construction is building the 15,000-sf, $4.4 million research facility, which will support NPS's initiative to document and protect all life forms in the half-million-acre national park. Designed by Lord, Aeck and Sargent, Atlanta, the facility will house research laboratories, offices, curatorial space for collected specimens, and educational space.